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  Saint Wycliffe of Miami Quotations

  Wycliffe E. Tyson

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  My book is a testament to how my spiritual connection to Jesus Christ has helped me overcome stumbling blocks to success. Drawing inspiration from powerful quotations, I have discovered how to combat the divisive tactics of evil and emerge victorious. I am fighting back and sharing my insights with others through the written Word. The quotations in my book reveal the lessons I have learned and the wisdom I have gained along the way.

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  Antarctica's Lost Aviator - The...

  Jeff Maynard

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  By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced he would fly across the unexplored continent, and to honor his hero, Wyatt Earp, he would carry his gun belt on the flight. The obstacles to Ellsworth’s ambition were numerous: he didn’t like the cold, he avoided physical work, and he couldn’t navigate. Consequently, he hired the experienced Australian explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins, to organize the expedition on his behalf. 
  
  While Ellsworth battled depression and struggled to conceal his homosexuality, Wilkins purchased a ship, hired a crew, and ordered a revolutionary new airplane constructed. The Ellsworth Trans-Antarctic Expeditions became epics of misadventure, as competitors plotted to beat Ellsworth, pilots refused to fly, crews mutinied, and the ship was repeatedly trapped in the ice. 
  
  Finally, in 1935, Ellsworth took off to fly from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. A few hours after leaving, radio contact with him was lost and the world gave him up for dead. 
  
  Antarctica’s Lost Aviator brings alive one of the strangest episodes in polar history, using previously unpublished diaries, correspondence, and film to reveal the amazing true story of the first crossing of Antarctica and how, against all odds, it was achieved by the unlikeliest of heroes.

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  Where the Trout Are All as Long...

  John Gierach

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  Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.Fly-fishing's finest scribe, John Gierach, takes us from a nameless stream on a nameless ranch in Montana to a secret pool off a secret creek where he caught a catfish as a five-year-old, to a brook full of rattlesnakes and a private pond where the trout are all as long as your leg. As Gierach says, "The secret places are the soul of fishing." Hearing about a new one never fails to entice us.And so Where the Trout Are All as Long as Your Leg transports the listener to the best of these places, where the fish are always bigger and the hatches last forever. After all, it's these magical places that Gierach so vividly evokes that remind us how precious—and precarious—are the unspoiled havens of the natural world.

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  Just a Girl - A shocking true...

  Scarlett Jones

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  Just A Girl is the shocking true story of Scarlett Jones, who was abused by her loved ones, groomed and trafficked by a gang, all the while fearing for her life. I was a good girl who was just 'helping Daddy' in the hell that I called home. Scarlett is just 8 years old when the horrific abuse at the hands of her father begins. It creates a world of shocking normality, one that she can only escape in her mind. Little Scarlett dreams of a time when she can be free . . . and then she meets Ed. Groomed and trafficked by her boyfriend, Scarlett realises she has been primed for abuse ever since she was a child. This is her harrowing story.

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  The Story of my Boyhood and...

  John Muir

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  The Story of my Boyhood and Youth is the affecting memoir of the now internationally renowned John Muir, a Scottish-American boy subject to a most unusual upbringing, his transition into adulthood, and the path that led him to petition for the concept of protected national parks.
  Born in East Lothian, Scotland in 1838, Muir was raised by a fanatically strict, religious father with his numerous brothers and sisters and loving mother. From an early age, a shy Muir showed fascination with the natural world, and at aged eleven, his father announced the family were to move to an American wilderness in Wisconsin – Muir had a new playground.
  His adolescence is spent labouring on the family's grassroots farm. Working seventeen-hour days, an exhausted yet inquisitive Muir desperately snatches moments to himself, yearning to explore the environment around him, secretly studying books on topics other than religion, and rising at 1 a.m. to pursue his hobby of inventing intricate time and energy-saving devices – much to his father's disapproval and everyone else's admiration.
  At age twenty-two, Muir takes it upon himself to apply to university, and does so without financial or moral support from his father. He makes his way to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study chemistry and botany, and though never graduating with a degree, he is satisfied that he had learned all he wanted to there, before completing the rest of his nature education in 'the university of the wilderness'.
  The Story of my Boyhood and Youth includes a new foreword by Terry Gifford, and offers insight into the development of Muir's spiritual connection with the natural world, and suggests an explanation for his passion for freedom in the wilderness, a stark contrast to the forced rigidity of his early years.

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  United States of True Crime:...

  Ashley Hudson

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  United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This book focuses on ten of the most chilling crimes in Colorado history. 
  True crime junkies may recognize some of the highly publicized cases, but also included are lesser-known, equally unsettling crimes. 
  The cases included in this book: 
  The Unsolved Murder of Maggie Long: Teenage girl murdered during a home invasion in 2017 
  Baby Hope and Baby Faith: Two infant girls found dead in 1996. Recent advances in DNA technology allowed law enforcement to find their mothers/murderers 
  Trey Styler: A retired doctor with financial troubles convicted of murdering his landlord alone, despite severe physical limitations 
  Scott Lee Kimball: Conman who tricked the FBI out of $50,000 and went on to brutally murder at least four women 
  Joseph Corbett Jr.: Abducted and killed the heir to the Coors Brewing fortune 
  Alfred Packer: Wilderness “guide” convicted of hunting and eating five men during a trek 
  Vincent Darrell Groves: Potentially the most prolific serial killer in Colorado history 
  Chris Watts: Murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters 
  Isaac Grimes: Brainwashed by fellow high school students and participated in a plot to massacre a friend and his grandparents 
  Alan Lee Phillips: Sexually assaulted and murdered two beautiful young women in 1982, but went undetected for almost four decades 
  If you’re a true crime enthusiast who enjoys reading about some of the most depraved monsters in our country, you will love United States of True Crime. 
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